Rathbun v. Taber Tank Lines, Inc.

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS:

I dissent, and I shall come quickly to the point in giving my reasons.

*134If the industrial accident board had found that Paul G. Rathbun died because of heart failure proximately caused or aggravated by the rigors of his employment as a truck driver and had accordingly awarded the claimant compensation, the citations in the majority opinion of Hoage v. Royal Indemnity Co., 67 App. D.C. 142, 90 F. (2d) 387; McCormick Lumber Co. v. Department of Labor and Industries, 7 Wash. (2d) 40, 108 Pac. (2d) 807, and like decisions might be apposite, for then the first question here would…